Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac (125 page)

CRAZY LIKE A FOX

1.
Futurama

2.
“Sour grapes”

3.
Sanford

4.
Eric Stolz

5.
Vixen

6.
The Quakers (or Society of Friends)

7.
Bats (fruit bats)

8.
Roger Daltrey

9.
Canada

10.
Jimmy Hoffa disappeared

JULY 3

WELL, THAT’S JUST GREAT

1.
Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes

2.
Pip

3.
American Pie
and
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

4.
Lyndon Johnson

5.
Fibber McGee and Molly

6.
The Sex Pistols

7.
“Annuit coeptis”

8.
Queensland

9.
Jack Johnson

10.
Thursday (Black Thursday)

NORTH AND SOUTH

1.
E

2.
B

3.
A

4.
D

5.
C

BEFORE I GET OLD

Easy

1.
Janis Joplin

2.
Sid Vicious

3.
Gram Parsons

4.
John Belushi

5.
Keith Moon

Harder

1.
Shannon Hoon

2.
Ol’ Dirty Bastard

3.
Rob Pilatus

4.
Phil Lynott

5.
Layne Staley

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Andrew Wood

2.
Hillel Slovak

3.
Kristen Pfaff

4.
Darby Crash

5.
Bradley Nowell

JULY 4

FOUNDING FATHERS

1.
The Battle of Trenton

2.
Patrick Henry (the next sentence ends “Give me liberty or give me death!”)

3.
Publius

4.
Benjamin Franklin

5.
Sally Hemings

HAIL CAESAR

1.
The thirteenth

2.
J. C. Watts

3.
Rico

4.
Macbeth

5.
Grease

THE REPLACEMENTS

1.
Tan

2.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

3.
Judas Iscariot

4.
Replaced Cal Ripken, Jr., at third base to end Ripken’s streak

5.
Coy and Vance

6.
The Washington Monument

7.
Shrimp

8.
The wild turkey

9.
Sam Waterston

10.
Rio de Janeiro

JULY 5

ORDINAL SINS

1.
An eighth note

2.
Second Life

3.
First Lady of the Confederacy

4.
The Seventh-Day Adventist Church

5.
Third base

6.
Born on the Fourth of July

7.
“The Tenth Muse”

8.
Saks Fifth Avenue

9.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

10.
The Sixth Sense
(so the correct order is 3-2-5-6-8-10-4-1-9-7)

NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTE

1.
Lyndon Johnson

2.
“Ice Ice Baby”

3.
A swan

4.
Thomas Kincaid

5.
Brian Lawton

YOUR CHEATIN’ HEART

1.
The Boston Marathon

2.
Kneecapping Nancy Kerrigan

3.
Hit the batter with a pitch

4.
Doug Collins

5.
Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ’Round the World” home run (the Giants were stealing signs)

JULY 6

A SHOT IN THE ARM

1.
Autism

2.
Measles, mumps, rubella (German measles)

3.
The March of Dimes

4.
Aerosmith (
Arrowsmith
)

5.
Tuberculosis

SAY UNCLE

1.
A bluebird

2.
Barry Zito

3.
Richard III

4.
The Dukes of Hazzard
and
Full House

5.
Monopoly

6.
Nicolas Cage and Jason Schwartzman

7.
The Ohio

8.
THRUSH

9.
William Tecumseh Sherman

10.
Jean Hersholt

MISTER BIG

1.
“To Be with You”

2.
Cadbury’s

3.
Live and Let Die

4.
Pottsylvania

5.
John

JULY 7

TORO! TORO! TORO!

1.
Elmer’s glue

2.
“God Save the King/Queen”

3.
Theodore Roosevelt

4.
Nicholas “Coach” Colasanto

5.
The Alan Parsons Project

6.
Thailand

7.
Crete

8.
Martin Luther

9.
The (Hunkpapa) Lakota

10.
Nostradamus

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1.
Ambrose Burnside

2.
Charles Cornwallis

3.
Norman Schwarzkopf

4.
Hermann Goering

5.
Benjamin Harrison

6.
Hannibal

7.
Tim Considine

8.
Antonio José de Sucre

9.
Beef Wellington

10.
George Washington, posthumously

JULY 8

STATE DEPARTMENT

1.
Maine

2.
South Dakota

3.
Kentucky

4.
New Hampshire

5.
Louisiana

THE GREAT ONE

Easy

1.
Russia

2.
Macedon

3.
Hawaii

4.
Egypt

Harder

1.
Persia

2.
India

3.
Rome

4.
Prussia

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Bulgaria

2.
The Ostrogoths

3.
Poland

4.
Akkad

QUAD SQUADS

1.
Longest careers for one team in their respective sports

2.
Played baseball and one other pro sport

3.
Controversial suspensions

4.
Jewish-American athletes

5.
Wore number 42

6.
Nicknamed “Moose”

7.
Won a championship MVP award even though their team lost

8.
Most games played in their respective sports

9.
Sons followed in their footsteps

10.
Died in plane crashes

JULY 9

GIVE THAT BACK!

1.
The Stone of Scone

2.
Jimmy Carter

3.
The Scream

4.
Mark Messier

5.
His bike

A-LIST STARS

1.
A

2.
C

3.
F

4.
D

5.
E

6.
B

SPORTFOLIO

Easy

1.
Five

2.
Two

3.
Six

4.
Nine

5.
Eleven

Harder

1.
Six

2.
Four

3.
Seven

4.
Eleven

5.
Ten

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Seven

2.
Seven

3.
Four (Eight including horses!)

4.
Eighteen

5.
Seven

JULY 10

RAISING “EL”

1.
Ciudad Juárez

2.
Quick Draw McGraw’s

3.
Desperado

4.
Orlando Hernández

5.
Toledo

THY NAME IS WOMAN

1.
Ruth

2.
Love Story

3.
Picabo (Picabo Street)

4.
-ko

5.
Mabe

6.
West Side Story
and
The Sound of Music

7.
“Al(l)ison”

8.
Lorelei

9.
Carrie (
Sister Carrie
and
Carrie
)

10.
Charlotte

OLD MONEY

Easy

1.
Portugal

2.
Germany

3.
Greece

4.
Ireland

Harder

1.
Austria

2.
Finland

3.
Poland

4.
The Netherlands

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Bulgaria

2.
Hungary

3.
Slovenia

4.
Estonia

JULY 11

DEAR PRUDE HENS

1.
Graham crackers (for Reverend Sylvester Graham)

2.
Showgirls

3.
Utah

4.
The Salem witch trials

5.
Pregnant

THE THE

1.
Guiding Light

2.
The Gambia

3.
The Invisible Man

4.
The word “the” appears twice

5.
And

TITLE WAVE

Easy

1.
Death of a Salesman

2.
The Count of Monte Cristo

3.
The Hobbit

4.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

5.
Pygmalion

Harder

1.
Native Son

2.
The Last of the Mohicans

3.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover

4.
The Natural

5.
The Portrait of a Lady

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
The Handmaid’s Tale

2.
The Idiot

3.
The Mayor of Casterbridge

4.
The Member of the Wedding

5.
The Stranger

JULY 12

BILL OF RIGHTS

1.
The penny

2.
The Pittsburgh Steelers

3.
The pulmonary artery

4.
Jerry Garcia

5.
Guyana and Suriname

6.
Montgomery Clift

7.
Captain Hook

8.
A screwball

9.
Thomas Eakins

10.
The Today Show

JUST FOR FIN

1.
Happy Days

2.
Lake Nicaragua

3.
Chevy Chase

4.
Led Zeppelin

5.
The great white shark

6.
The Oakland Seals

7.
The Discovery Channel

8.
The Jets

9.
The Tiburon

10.
The USS
Indianapolis

JULY 13

SHOW TUNES

Easy

1.
The Greatest American Hero

2.
Laverne & Shirley

3.
Cheers

4.
Friends

5.
The Beverly Hillbillies

Harder

1.
The Golden Girls

2.
Malcolm in the Middle

3.
Sanford and Son

4.
The Dukes of Hazzard

5.
Mad About You

Yeah, Good Luck

1.
Webster

2.
Leave It to Beaver

3.
Alice

4.
227

5.
Twin Peaks

KINGS OF SWING

1.
The San Diego Padres

2.
Anthony Kennedy

3.
Guitar George

4.
Money

5.
Missouri

A LITTLE MORE CONVERSATION

1.
“Baby Got Back” (Sir Mix-a-Lot)

2.
“Leader of the Pack” (the Shangri-Las)

3.
“Radio Song” (R.E.M.)

4.
“Bitchin’ Camaro” (Dead Kennedys)

5.
“Computer Blue” (Prince and the Revolution)

6.
“Undone (The Sweater Song)” (Weezer)

7.
“The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” (the Chipmunks)

8.
“Make It Funky (Part 1)” (James Brown)

9.
“Black Country Woman” (Led Zeppelin)

10.
“Hot for Teacher” (Van Halen)

JULY 14

ALL I NEED IS THE HEIR THAT I BREED

1.
Anne of Cleves

2.
Anne Boleyn

3.
Jane Seymour

4.
Jane Seymour